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A book cover featuring a photograph of a street in Oaxaca, Mexico, lined with colorful low-rise buildings. Orange papel picado banners stretch across the street. Numerous power lines crisscross the sky overhead. In the background, dark, heavy storm clouds gather above a silhouette of distant mountains. The title text reads “Brooding with Storm Clouds: Return to Oaxaca,” and the author’s name, “Donna Lauren Gold,” appears below.

Gold – Brooding with Storm Clouds: Return to Oaxaca

Barclay – The Orinoco Solution

Howard – The Man in the Bed

A sunlit scene shows a silver BMW sedan parked on grass in front of a small beige mobile home, with an older rust-colored vehicle partially visible beside it. Warm golden-hour light illuminates trees and a partly cloudy sky in the background. Large white text overlaid across the image reads “DOGS IS GOOD PEOPLE,” with “Barbara S. Rusiecki” in smaller text at the bottom. A small porch with a railing and household items sits to the right of the trailer.

Rusiecki – Dogs Is Good People

Illustrated children’s book cover titled “Itsy Bitsy Betsy,” with the title written in curved yellow letters at the top. In the center, a cartoon child with bright curly red hair and large green eyes jumps joyfully with arms stretched wide. The child wears blue denim overalls, a yellow shirt, and red high-top sneakers. The child appears to be stepping or bouncing on a large yellow flower in the foreground. The background is a softly blurred green field filled with additional yellow flowers, creating a warm, playful outdoor scene. At the bottom, curved white text reads, “Written and illustrated by Julie Bishop.”

Bishop – Itsy Bitsy Betsy

Illustrated book cover showing a stylized, fantasy character standing in front of an industrial brick building with a smokestack and water tower. The character is seen from behind, with pointed ears, shaggy hair, and a partially mechanical-looking arm raised overhead, emitting jagged streaks of energy. Purple rays radiate outward across an orange and pink sky, creating a dramatic glow. The title text at the top reads “Hudsonville Rise Again!” in bold, jagged, yellow and purple lettering. At the bottom, the author’s name, “Stewart Chisham,” appears in large white capital letters.

Chisham – Hudsonville – Rise Again!

Osterberg – Impressions Incomplete… Volume 1

A book cover showing a pair of bare feet standing at the edge of ocean waves on wet sand. Foam from the surf spreads around the feet. Scattered vintage black‑and‑white photographs lie across the left side of the image, partially overlapping the sandy background. The title “What Ruth Learned” appears in large white script across the center, with the subtitle “A Novel” beneath it. At the bottom, the author’s name, “Alexandra Hayne,” is printed in white text.

Hayne – What Ruth Learned

Book cover for a novel titled Rule of Odds: Fresh Cut. The design features a close-up photograph of a person holding a Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera directly toward the viewer. The camera dominates the center of the image. Reflected or composited inside the camera lens is a small orange flower, sharply contrasted against the dark lens. The person's hands, hair, and part of the face are partially visible behind the camera. At the top, large blue text reads “RULE OF ODDS.” At the bottom, large bold red text reads “FRESH CUT,” with smaller white text below stating “A Modern Crime Novel by Kris Abel-Helwig.” The overall tone is dramatic and photographic, suggesting a crime story linked to photography.

Abel-Helwig – Rule of Odds: Fresh Cut

Illustrated book cover titled “Mark Lyte and the Marvelous Microbes: How One Scientist Learned to Trust His Gut” by Phyllis A. Hoelzel. The artwork shows a cartoon-style scientist wearing glasses, a lab coat, and a tie, standing with folded arms. Surrounding the scientist are colorful, whimsical microbes with expressive faces, rendered in shades of green, blue, yellow, and red. The background is filled with swirling shapes and textures suggesting an active microscopic world.

Hoelzel – Mark Lyte And The Marvelous Microbes: How One Scientist Learned To Trust His Gut

book cover for Jenkins' Ear showing aerial view of Castillo de San Marcos fort in St. Augustine overlaid on a 1700s map of Florida

Pittaway – Jenkins’ Ear

book cover showing a kokeshi doll. the book title, and the author's name

Wodarz – Will My Touch Make You Feel Any Less Lonely?

The image is a book cover featuring a house with the title "The House Next Door" and the author's name "Rose Hamilton-Gottlieb" at the bottom.

Hamilton – The House Next Door

book cover image of Hudsonville - What Lies Beneath showing a character and a robot as cartoon characters looking at the camera in a darkened cave.

Chisham – Hudsonville – What Lies Beneath

A book cover features a woman in a red dress looking over her shoulder, with a vintage airplane flying in the sky above her and a cityscape in the background. The title, The Orinoco Gambit, is prominently displayed. Text on the cover identifies it as a World War II Thriller about love, loyalty, and espionage involving OSS agents in South America by author J.K. Barclay.

Barclay – The Orinoco Gambit

Osterberg – Design for All

a winding dirt road recedes into the distance in an Iowa landscape, with farm houses near the horizon on a cloudy day

Hamilton-Gottlieb – Jared’s Daughter

A boy with red hair, wearing short gray pants and a short-sleeved white shirt is running down the street in 1950s Ames, Iowa

Lind – Ode to/til Billy Buck

book cover for twelve dreams of Rome

Engel – Twelve Dreams of Rome

Undecember book cover

Saha – Undecember

Ahmadian – Three Plays

book cover for Fern Kupfer's Strong Women in Chicago

Kupfer – Strong Women in Chicago

book cover for Luke Pittaway's Yamacraw Bluff

Pittaway – Yamacraw Bluff

widow book cover

Kazdan – Oh. I’m A Widow

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Petersen – The Little Tryceratops Tries Soccer

book cover showing book title and painting by Murillo

Suhr – Love Me, Your Daughter

Osterberg – Staying Vertical in a Hazardous World

book cover showing the title with a castle in the sky to the left and a full moon in the upper right corner at night

Tavallaei – Dreams and Realities

Maney cover

Maney – I Wouldn’t Go Back If They Built A Bridge

Pea's Ladies book cover shoing a framed shop window with mannequins dressed in period clothing

Hamilton-Gottlieb – Pea’s Ladies

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Brantley – My Natural Methodism

Book cover for Traveling Light

Hamilton-Gottlieb – Traveling Light

Book cover of My Wings Aren't Ready To Fly

Abel-Helwig – My Wings Aren’t Ready To Fly

Abel-Helwig – Fade to Black & White

book cover for I Wish My Words Tasted Better

Abel-Helwig – I Wish My Words Tasted Better

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Baur – Alternate Take

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Suhr – Learning About Love

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Baur – Remastered

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Tavallaei – Poems as Short as Life

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Osterberg – Dream House on the Prairie

Suhr – The German Exchange Student

Brantley – Phases

Brantley – We Are the Sum of Tiny Spaces

Larche – Angels in the Snow

Meritt-Gordon and Grosscup – Tell Them What You Want

book cover of Finnish Sauna design with a sold-out sticker in the top left corner

Liikkanen – Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design

Andrews – Vervm Fictvm: Architectural Delineation and Speculation, 1984-2020

Clark – These Doors

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Leverenz – So Mortal, So Dear

Andrews – Rationalism and Poetry

Naegele – Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa

Careri – Walkscapes

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Jacks – A House and its Atmosphere

Longstaff – In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back

Friday – I Remembered

Yates – White Creek

Transatlantic Trio book cover

Brantley – Transatlantic Trio

Dutton – Paid in Sunsets

Williams – Summer of Weird Harold

Howard – The Girl with Wings

Pronker-Coron – The Bridge

Zach – For The Birds

Polsgrove – When We Were Young in Africa

Kieklak – Run Better Run Faster

Browning – Kites

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Clark – Sixty Something and Flying Solo: A Retiree Sorts it Out in Iowa

Jacks – The Architect’s Tour

Golisch – Fly and Fall

Moe – Sled Dogs to Saint Paul

I cannot live without books

Croyle – Hertwig: The Zelig of Design

Koch – Sacred and Secular Music

Fern Kupfer Interview

Mawson – Shirley and Her Magic Blanket

Fern Kupfer Reads from Her New Book

Kupfer – Leaving Long Island

Piontek – Have We Possibly Met Before?

Quillien – Clever Digs

Groves – Anna May Wong

Golisch – The Living Thing

book cover for Merritt's Perspective Drawing

Merritt – Perspective Drawing

Quillien – Delight’s Muse

Stella – Happy Ending

Muecke and Zach – Resonance

Akombo – Music and Healing Across Cultures